To James Russell Lowell, school-mate and fellow townsman, this book is inscribed.
Alter ab undecimo tum me jam ceperat annus,
Jam fragiles poteram a terra contingere ramos.
Ver erat aeternum; placidique tepentibus auris
Mulcebant zephyri natos sine semine flores.
Cambridge, Mass., U. S. A., 1889.